{"id":19071,"date":"2025-09-14T03:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19071"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:04:14","slug":"libya-reaches-agreement-with-armed-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19071","title":{"rendered":"Libya reaches agreement with armed group"},"content":{"rendered":"
Libya’s UN-recognised government based in Tripoli has reached a preliminary accord with a powerful armed group to end months of tensions that have flared into occasional violence, a government adviser and local media said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Negotiations between the government and the Radaa Force were facilitated by Turkey, according to the same sources.<\/p>\n

Ziyad Deghem, an adviser to the head of the Presidential Council transitional body, said the details of the accord “will be announced to the public at a later date”.<\/p>\n

Neither Radaa nor the government have so far made any official comments.<\/p>\n

However, Libyan broadcaster Al-Ahrar on Saturday posted on X a video that it said showed defence ministry forces entering an airport controlled by Radaa.<\/p>\n

The North African country is still plagued by division and instability after years of unrest following the NATO-backed uprising that toppled longtime leader Moamer Kadhafi in 2011.<\/p>\n

It remains divided between the UN-recognised government in the west and its eastern rival, backed by military commander Khalifa Haftar.<\/p>\n

In mid-May, there were clashes in Tripoli between forces loyal to the government and armed groups that the authorities are trying to dismantle.<\/p>\n

Among them is the Radaa Force, which controls the east of the capital and Mitiga airport, as well as prisons and detention centres.<\/p>\n

According to a source within the group, cited by Al-Ahrah, the two parties agreed to a “neutral and unified force… managing and securing four airports” in the west, including Mitiga.<\/p>\n

The airport, controlled by Radaa since 2011, is the only one to serve the Libyan capital with commercial flights.<\/p>\n

Prisons and detention centres managed by the Radaa Force are set to come under the authority of the Attorney General’s office, according to Al-Ahrar.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the channel, Deghem thanked Turkey “for its exceptional efforts” and the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for its “essential and decisive” mediation. AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Libya’s UN-recognised government based in Tripoli has reached a preliminary accord with a powerful armed group to end months of tensions that have flared into occasional violence, a government adviser and local media said Saturday. Negotiations between the government and the Radaa Force were facilitated by Turkey, according to the same sources. Ziyad Deghem, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}